discuss: History of LDP
Subject:
Re: History of LDP
From:
jdd ####@####.####
Date:
15 Jan 2016 07:15:20 +0000
Message-Id: <56989CC4.90405@dodin.org>
Le 15/01/2016 06:51, David Lawyer a écrit :
> I think it's about time to update the history of LDP and perhaps be more
> honest about it. I was sent to the Montreal expo in 2000 and almost
> everyone visiting the LDP booth there complained about our documentation
> being out-of-date. After that, the problem only got worse except that we
> started reviewing docs more which improved the quality of some docs.
>
> My view is that we made a big mistake by going with DocBook.
One thing is sure, when I tried to revive the LDP the manpower was too
small to fill the task.
But the same is for my local Linux User Group, that survive somewhat
with a handful people and 3 or 4 happy visitors (physical) a month.
LDP was necessary at the moment, it's no more now. The way Distributions
changed from Linux-XXX to XXX (linux) didn't make the things better.
but this is simply life. Linux won the race in embedded devices and
probably also on servers, but didn't on desktops.
My guess is that LDP should stop working officially, remove any mirror,
keep the web site open as long as hardware permits (with clear notice
"for historical purpose only") and may be like you began to do keep only
living the history page.
as a funny tip, one may know that Ghylhem Aznar was from the same French
LUG (http://culte.org) as I was (and where I still work), so LDP come
partly from Toulouse, France and more precisely it's suburb, Ramonville :-))
jdd
